by design | Jan 1, 2025 | The Daily Focus
TRAFFIC ALERT: KNOX COUNTY KNOXVILLE – Motorists traveling on Alcoa Highway (US 129/State Route 115) in Knox County should be aware of upcoming road construction activities that will have a temporary impact on traffic. Beginning on Thursday,...
by design | Dec 31, 2024 | The Daily Focus
TENNESSEE STATE PARKS TO HOST FIRST DAY HIKES TO START YEAR NASHVILLE – Tennessee State Parks will hold First Day Hikes on New Year’s Day, with most of the 59 state parks hosting the events as part of the parks’ year-long Signature Hikes series. The free guided...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
It’s Resolution Time By Joe Rector Thousands of folks, perhaps even millions of them, will begin the year 2025 with pledges to change things in their lives. We have a way of trying to start each year with resolutions to better ourselves. Some people feel the stress of...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Nagi
The sky isn’t falling for the Vols By Mark Nagi This season Tennessee’s football team won 10 games. They beat rivals Florida and Alabama, each of them for the second time in three years. They finished the regular season tied for second place in the Southeastern...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
December Saturdays to Remember By Tom Mattingly Rarely have three consecutive December Saturdays been as significant as Dec. 4, Dec. 11, and Dec. 18 were in 1965, following a successful Tennessee football season. These were December Saturdays that forever changed the...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
The New Order The news media did not lose its credibility. It threw it away. Don Surber By Dr. Jim Ferguson I begin this last column of the year on a high note of optimism. The year 2024 was the proverbial Alexander’s “Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad [year].”...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Still Living In Andy Of Mayberry Days By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com My late wife, Lynn, sometimes told people that I didn’t like change and that I still lived in Andy Griffith of Mayberry days. Then, one day about 15 or 20 years ago, I read in the...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Black, Columnist
Democrats and the politics of envy By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Kamala Harris ran ads as the “candidate of change” promising a “new way forward.” She apparently forgot that she was Joe Biden’s vice president. Did this mean she was...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | The Daily Focus
“Creating a Bird Friendly Yard” A Pre-Recorded Zoom Program Sponsored by the UT Arboretum Society on January 2 Watching birds come and go from our yards lowers our blood pressure, and it’s a peaceful, soothing activity for the cold winter months. Providing the proper...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Public Notice
ORDER OF PUBLICATION NOTICE OF HEARING ON SALE OF REAL PROPERTY TO: HEIRS OF MARY WILLIAMS (deceased sister of Eva Mae Williams); HEIRS OF DAISY FISHBACK (deceased sister of Eva Mae Williams); HEIRS OF JOANN ANDREWS (deceased sister of Eva Mae Williams); HEIRS...
